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US20140319060A1 US14/346,149 US201314346149A US2014319060A1 US 20140319060 A1 US20140319060 A1 US 20140319060A1 US 201314346149 A US201314346149 A US 201314346149A US 2014319060 A1 US2014319060 A1 US 2014319060A1
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  • the present invention relates to a method for removing ammonium nitrogen from organic waste water.
  • Ammonia is an irritant of eyes, nose and lungs and in high concentrations may cause disease or even death.
  • the species making up the original vegetation are displaced by nitrophilic ones.
  • Part of the nitrogen present will possibly leach in the form of nitrate to the ground water or run off to watercourses, bodies of fresh water and the sea, giving rise to further problems of pollution and eutrophication.
  • an initial fractionation in a dry and a liquid fraction is normally effected by various means as a pronounced proportion of nitrogen is present in the liquid fraction of the waste.
  • the dry waste fraction arising as a result of said fractionation may be used e.g. as a soil conditioner rich in phosphorus, as a biomass fuel, or as a raw material for a biogas plant.
  • nitrogen has traditionally been removed from the liquid waste fraction by ammonia stripping and/or precipitation of ammonium salts for direct use as a fertilizer effected by addition of a range of extraneous chemicals.
  • beds of natural ion exchanger When used for the purpose in question, beds of natural ion exchanger clog up by fine material arising from their own disintegration as well as by particles of dry matter, partly of organic nature, from the organic waste water.
  • the percolation of the liquid to be cleansed is seriously impeded, so that the flow rate through the bulk of ion exchanger and thus its efficiency shrinks to an unsatisfactory level, in general to less than 3 mm/min.
  • the weathering of the ion exchanger material progresses such as to aggravate the problem of occlusion of the plant, yielding a pattern of inhibited and uneven flow through different parts of the ion exchanger beds.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide an environmentally friendly procedure for removing ammonium nitrogen from organic waste water, which procedure is efficient, simple and durable and requires only a modest consumption of energy and extraneous, industrial chemicals.
  • a method for removing ammonium nitrogen from organic waste water comprises the steps of providing organic waste water with a content of ammonium nitrogen of less than 2 g/l; applying said waste water to an organic, synthetic ion exchanger adsorbing more than 1.2 eq/l (molar equivalents per litre), preferably more than 2.0 eq/l, in use; and allowing ammonium nitrogen from said waste water to adsorb to said ion exchanger, wherein the ion exchanger is subsequently regenerated with a solution of NaNO 3 of a molality from 3 mol/kg to full saturation and of a temperature from 5 to 40° C., and/or with a solution of Na 2 CO 3 of a molality from 1 mol/kg to full saturation and of a temperature from 5 to 40° C., and/or with a solution of NaCl of a molality from 3 mol/kg to full saturation and of a temperature from 5 to 40° C., and
  • the inventors have realized that the organic, synthetic ion exchanger in the present application actually tolerates such very strong regenerant solutions despite express exhortations in the directions for use given by producers of synthetic ion exchangers that the latter only be regenerated with much weaker solutions in order not to destroy the ion exchanger as a result of excessive osmotic shock.
  • the possibility of using strong regenerant solutions is a strongly contributory factor in achieving a high concentration factor.
  • strong saline solutions effectively inhibit the establishment of most kinds of microbiological cultures in the bed of ion exchanger, so that a preceding step of pasteurizing the waste water to be treated may often be dispensed with.
  • the organic, synthetic ion exchanger is a cation exchanger made from a resin, such as styrene crosslinked by addition of divinyl benzene at the polymerisation process and with strongly acidic functional groups. It may be of a gel type or a macroporous type. Alternatively, the ion exchanger may be in the form of a weak acid cation exchanger, wherein carboxylic acid groups are functionalized on an acrylic resin, which again may be shaped either as a gel type or as a macroporous type.
  • one or more anion exchangers may also be present in the plant accommodating the cation exchanger.
  • the preferred solvent for the solutions applied for regeneration is water, although other suitable solvents may also come into question.
  • the regenerant solutions of the respective salts may be employed singularly or combined. Each ion of ammonium (NH 4 + ) will exchange with one of the likewise monovalent ions of sodium (Na + ) or potassium (K + ), respectively, in the regenerant solutions.
  • NH 4 + ammonium
  • K + potassium
  • any of the listed salts into which enter two atoms of sodium or potassium per molecule will offer for ammonium exchange twice as many molar equivalents/kg as the molecular molality cited for the solution.
  • the ion exchanger is brought on Na + -form or K + -form prior to the application of the waste water to the ion exchanger.
  • the ion exchanger may be treated with a solution of sodium chloride, sodium nitrate or sodium sulphate.
  • Other easily soluble cations, which in combination with the applied ion exchanger resin are suitable for selective exchange of ammonium ions from the liquid to be treated, may also come into consideration for pre-loading of the ion exchanger.
  • older organic waste water rich in ammonia could be applied to a separate bed of organic, synthetic ion exchanger on H + -form.
  • the ion exchanger is regenerated with a solution of K 2 CO 3 having a temperature of 5° C. and a molality of more than 5 mol/kg, more than 6 mol/kg, preferentially 7 mol/kg. Most preferred, the ion exchanger is regenerated with a solution of K 2 CO 3 of a molality of 8 mol/kg and a temperature of 20° C.
  • the ion exchanger may also be regenerated with a solution of NaNO 3 having a temperature of 5° C. and a molality of more than 6 mol/kg, more than 7 mol/kg, advantageously 8 mol/kg. Further, it may be regenerated with a solution of NaNO 3 having a temperature of 10° C. and a molality of 9 mol/kg, or, most preferred, with a solution of NaNO 3 having a temperature of 20° C. and a molality of 10 mol/kg.
  • the use of NaNO 3 as a regenerant is favourable in that ammonium nitrate results as a product. This is much in demand as a high-nitrogen fertilizer and as an explosive for coal and steel mining, quarrying, and construction works.
  • the ion exchanger may be regenerated with a solution of Na 2 CO 3 showing a temperature of 20° C. and a molality of 2 mol/kg, a temperature of 30° C. and a molality of 3 mol/kg, or, preferably, a temperature of 40° C. and a molality of 4.5 mol/kg.
  • Ammonium hydrogen carbonate which is a fertilizer much in demand in China, may advantageously be prepared by using Na 2 CO 3 as a regenerant with ensuing passage of fine bubbles of carbon dioxide through the eluate and cooling thereof.
  • Regeneration of the ion exchanger can also be performed with a solution of Na 2 SO 4 presenting a temperature of 30° C. and a molality of 2.5 mol/kg, or, favourably, presenting a temperature of 32° C. and a molality of 3.5 mol/kg.
  • the resulting product, ammonium sulfate is in demand as a fertilizer for alkaline soils and is moreover employed in vaccines, as a food additive and for purifying proteins by selective precipitation.
  • the ion exchanger may also be regenerated with a solution of NaCl of a molality of 6 mol/kg and a temperature of 5° C., 10° C., or preferably, 20° C.
  • Ammonium chloride is suitable for use as a feed supplement for cattle and may be converted to a number of fertilizer products by established methods, but it also finds a great many non-agricultural uses in its own right. It is employed, e.g., in textile printing, plywood glue, hair shampoo, cleaning products, in nutritive media for yeast, as cough medicine, to slow the melting of snow on ski slopes at temperatures above 0° C. and as a flavour additive to liquorice and vodka.
  • the ion exchanger can be regenerated with a solution of K 2 HPO 4 of a molality of 5, 6, 7, or, preferably, 8 mol/kg and a temperature of 20° C.
  • the salts of ammonium (and potassium) produced when regenerating the ion exchanger may be separated from the eluate streaming from the ion exchanger by addition of the regenerant salt at a specified temperature at which the solubility of the regenerant differs from the solubility of the ammonium and potassium salts. If the product salts present the lower solubility, they may be recovered as crystals. If they have the higher solubility, they can be recovered from the solution and the regenerant can be recovered as crystals.
  • the step of applying waste water to the ion exchanger and the step of regenerating the ion exchanger are performed by turns in a series comprising more than 10, preferably more than 25, preferentially more than 50, more preferred more than 500, most preferred more than 3000 repetitions of said steps and wherein the ion exchanger is not replaced during the duration of such a series.
  • the inventors have unexpectedly found that the ion exchanger stands up to such a treatment without any significant impairment of its performance.
  • the concentration of ammonium nitrogen in the organic waste water exceeds 1 g/l, preferentially 1.5 g/l. Said concentrations are higher than that of organic waste water normally treated in sewage works.
  • a durable ion exchanger with a high exchange capacity i.e. 1.2 molar equivalents per liter, preferably 2.0 molar equivalents per liter, renders possible to favourably treat liquids with high concentrations of ammonium by way of ion exchanging without the need for any pre-treatment to reduce the ammonium content of the liquid to be treated, which would otherwise not have been practical and profitable.
  • the concentration of ammonium nitrogen in the organic waste water to be treated is 1.9 g/l or less.
  • the organic waste water has a content of organic matter of more than 1, more than 2, more than 3, or more than 5% (w/w) at the time of application of said waste water to the ion exchanger, said organic matter being dissolved or in particles of a maximum extension of 25 ⁇ m.
  • the organic wastewater to be treated comprises liquid manure.
  • the liquid manure present in the organic waste water to be treated according to said embodiment of the invention may originate from any animal, but most often stems from livestock, e.g. pigs, cows or poultry. Prior to its application to the ion exchanger said manure may be admixed with other kinds of organic waste, such as municipal sewage.
  • the organic, synthetic ion exchanger may be installed at a central plant receiving manure-containing waste water from several external sources or it may be put up in a farm setting to be associated with a stable, be it a traditional or a loose-housing system, or a pigsty, be it indoors or outdoors. By the latter association the possibility of a predictable and stable supply of fresh manure is assured.
  • the liquid manure results from a fractionation of manure, such as to restrict the occurrence of coarse, solid matter.
  • the manure is briefly stored in a reservoir before fractionation.
  • the fractionation may be achieved by means of any kind of separator, optionally a screen shaker separator.
  • the manure may also be separated in a decanter or in a screw press.
  • the liquid manure is pasteurised after fractionation and before being applied to the ion exchanger. This is done in order to inhibit microbiological growth and thus the formation of biofilms and particulate colonies in the bed of ion exchanger.
  • the liquid manure is fractionated and, after shortly residing in one or more buffer tanks, pasteurized and applied to the ion exchanger within a period from 2 days to 5 weeks after the occurrence of the underlying, causative defecation and urination to limit the emission of ammonia and assure that the manure is still relatively fresh and lends itself to fractionation.
  • Processing the manure at such an early stage presents the additional advantage that the emission of methane and laughing gas, which are greenhouse gases 21 and 289 times as potent as carbon dioxide, respectively, is extensively limited. Had the liquid to be treated not originated from manure, the cited freshness criteria would be different or would not apply.
  • the maximum size of the solid particles in the liquid manure to be applied to the ion exchanger preferably is equal to or less than 25 ⁇ m, most preferred less than 10 ⁇ m, in order not to restrict the flow of liquid through the bed of ion exchanger and its ion exchange capacity.
  • the organic waste water shows a pH in the range of 6.5-8.0 at the time of application of said waste water to the ion exchanger.
  • the organic waste water is treated at a stage, where the predominant part of the nitrogen contained therein is present in the form of ammonium, it should not be left to turn alkaline.
  • a substantial part of the ammonium present has been allowed to convert to ammonia, it will be ineffective to apply the organic waste water to the ion exchanger on Na + -form or K + -form.
  • organic waste water rich in ammonia as a result of extended storage could as mentioned earlier be applied to a separate bed of organic, synthetic ion exchanger on H + -form.
  • the beads of the ion exchanger have a mean particle size of 0.4-1.0 mm, preferably 0.6-0.7 mm, and a uniformity coefficient of 1.2 or less, preferably 1.1 or less.
  • the uniformity coefficient is defined as the relation between the particle size corresponding to the mesh at which 60% of the particles pass a sieve, and the particle size corresponding to the mesh at which 10% of the particles pass a sieve. If the beads are too large, the accessible surface area of the beads and thus the total exchange capacity of the bed of ion exchanger will be insufficient, whereas beads, which are too small, will float atop the liquid to be treated rather than being pervaded by it.
  • a low uniformity coefficient assures that the particles of the organic, synthetic ion exchanger are not packed too tightly and are less prone to clogging, especially when compared to natural ion exchangers.
  • a much higher flow rate is made possible when employing an organic, synthetic ion exchanger.
  • the beads of ion exchanger resin may be unpacked with regular intervals by blowing through compressed air from beneath the bed of ion exchanger.
  • FIGURE shows a schematic view of an embodiment of a plant for carrying out the method according to the invention.
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  • Liquid manure is received together with other organic waste materials at the site 1 , from where it is pumped or loaded as required to the buffer tank 2 . It is delivered by truck from sources that are external to the plant. When arriving, the manure is of an age of 1 to 30 days and presents itself as a relatively fresh, thin slurry, wherein a pronounced majority of nitrogen is present as ammonium, pH is neutral and the content of carbonic acid is high.
  • portions of the mixture of organic waste materials are conveyed with regular intervals to the decanter 3 to be separated into two fractions.
  • One fraction is a solid fraction and the other fraction is a liquid fraction having substantially no particles larger than 25 ⁇ m.
  • the liquid fraction is stored in the buffer tank 4 for only long enough to ensure that substantially all urea from the manure is converted to ammonium and carbon dioxide.
  • the solid fraction is transported to an external storage and plays no role in the ensuing process of the present invention.
  • the liquid fraction is pumped to the pasteurization unit 5 to be heated to at least 72° C. for not less than 2 hours, so that the microorganisms present in the liquid are killed off or substantially reduced. In this way the establishment of bacterial and fungal colonies in the bed of ion exchanger is avoided or at least retarded.
  • the liquid fraction containing ammonium nitrogen in a concentration of 1 g/l and 2% (w/w) of organic matter at this stage, is pumped to the containers 6 and 7 , which in the present embodiment are parallelly arranged and have a bed of organic, synthetic ion exchanger within them.
  • the ion exchanger is made of a gel resin on Na + -form, having as its matrix styrene crosslinked by addition of divinylbenzene and having as functional group sulfonic acid.
  • the total exchange capacity of the ion exchanger amounts to about 2 molar equivalents per litre, and the average bead size is about 0.65 mm, showing a uniformity coefficient of about 1.1.
  • a volume of approximately 1.6 m 3 of ion exchanger is present in each container, and the inner cross-sectional area of each container at the top level of the bed of ion exchanger is around 1.8 m 2 .
  • the liquid to be treated is pumped to the top of each container such as to percolate through the bed of synthetic, organic ion exchanger by the force of gravity at a flow rate of 3-10 cm/min, which is 6 to 10 times higher than the flow rate attainable with natural ion exchangers.
  • the operation proceeds at atmospheric pressure; however, at regular intervals the bed of ion exchanger is blown through by compressed air at a maximum of 2.0 bars from the bottom of the container in order to maintain a porous, homogenous overall structure of the bed.
  • the permeate is led to the buffer tank 8 ; otherwise, its use as a dilute fertilizer could have been desirable. Alternatively, it might also run through a bed of anion exchanger to remove phosphate ions. Subsequently, the permeate is adjusted to a prescribed water quality in the ultrafiltration unit 9 and the reverse osmosis unit 10 to finally arrive in the buffer tank 11 , from which it is discarded or put to a suitable use according to local demands.
  • the permeate could advantageously have been put to use in the continuous or intermittent flushing of manure from beneath the floor of a stable or pigsty with an eye to restricting the conversion of nitrogen in the manure from ammonium into ammonia.
  • the flushed manure including the permeate used for flushing would form the basis of the organic waste water to be applied to the ion exchanger, possibly after a brief stay in a reservoir with subsequent fractionation.
  • the flow of liquid manure, provided by said flushing using permeate from the ion exchanger would have been timed such as to ascertain the conversion of urea contained in the manure into ammonium and carbon dioxide, while still restricting the conversion of ammonium into ammonia.
  • the permeate might have been turned to account in a most propitious way, as the flow of manure would henceforth be inherently integrated into the process for removal of ammonium nitrogen. Consequently, the manure would enter into a regular flow and would still be fresh when applied to the ion exchanger.
  • the emission of ammonia to the air of the stable or pigsty might be reduced by as much as 60% or more, and the ratio of ammonium to ammonia in the liquid manure to be treated would be sufficiently high to assure that a substantial part of the nitrogen present might be scavenged as ammonium ions in the ion exchanger.
  • ammonia would be more prevalent and it would be necessary to include a step comprising pre-treatment with an acid or a step comprising separate treatment in a bed of H + -loaded ion exchanger to be regenerated with a solution of phosphoric acid or sulphuric acid if a similar effectiveness was to be attained.
  • the supply of waste water to a bed of ion exchanger is interrupted when ammonium in a pre-specified concentration as determined by online measurements begins to leak from its bottom. Regeneration of the ammonium-saturated container is started while a fresh container is switched in to replace it in the ion exchange treatment of waste water. In this way a continuous operation of the plant is effected.
  • the respective bed of ion exchanger is flushed with one bed volume of water such as to rinse out particulate matter and organic material from the ion exchanger.
  • the regeneration is performed with NaNO 3 in a concentration of about 10 mol/kg water, corresponding to an almost complete saline saturation, which is introduced at a temperature of about 20° C. to the bottom of the ion exchanger container from the vessel 12 .
  • bacteria and fungi that might have been present in the bed of the ion exchanger are killed off to an extent that the preceding step of waste water pasteurization in this case could have been omitted.
  • the applied ions of sodium act such as to replace adsorbed ions of potassium and subsequently ions of ammonium as well as some amino acids from the ion exchanger.
  • the concentration factor depend on a range of factors, notably: 1) The concentration of ammonium ions in the liquid to be treated; 2) the ion exchange capacity of the ion exchange resin; 3) the concentration of the regenerant solution (molar equivalents of positive charges); and 4) the flow pattern of regenerant solution in the bed of ion exchange resin.
  • a pulsed regeneration comprising repeated cycles of a high-flow phase followed by a pause allows for a significantly higher concentration factor due to a higher peak concentration of ammonium in the eluate and shorter tails.
  • An example of a cycle of pulsed regenerant flow could be 15 bed volumes/h for 6 seconds followed by zero flow for 54 seconds, resulting in a mean flow rate of 1.5 bed volumes/h.
  • radial mixing in the bed of ion exchange is optimized, while diffusion into the ion exchanger beads is optimized during the pause.
  • the resultant plug flow presents a high concentration in the front of the regenerant flow and short tails.
  • the macroporous ion exchanger was also found to be fully applicable for the purpose according to the invention.
  • the macroporous cation exchanger showed the best results and is found to be applicable for the purpose of the invention.
  • a full-scale plant for carrying out the method according to the invention was set up at Wageningen University, Swine Research Centre Sterksel, Netherlands.
  • Incoming pig manure one week old was separated into a solid and a liquid fraction with the aid of a decanter.
  • the liquid fraction was shortly stored in a buffer tank, from which it was pumped onto an organic, synthetic ion exchanger.
  • the ion exchanger was constituted by beads of a gel resin on Na + -form, having as their matrix styrene crosslinked by addition of divinylbenzene and presenting as functional group sulfonic acid.
  • the total exchange capacity of the ion exchanger amounted to approximately 2 molar equivalents per litre, while the average bead size was about 0.65 mm.
  • the uniformity coefficient of the bulk of ion exchanger beads was about 1.1.
  • a volume of approximately 1.6 m 3 of ion exchanger was present in each container in a row of containers, and the inner cross-sectional area of each container at the top level of the bed of ion exchanger was approximately 1.8 m 2 .
  • the liquid to be treated was pumped to the top of each container such as to percolate through the beds of synthetic, organic ion exchanger by the force of gravity at a flow rate of approximately 7 cm/min.
  • the regeneration was continued until a pre-specified low level of ammonium in the eluate was reached.
  • the separation efficiency is a measure of the proportion of the mass input per nutrient that ends up in the eluate after being treated according to the above procedure.
  • the separation efficiency was calculated by dividing the mass of nutrient in the eluate with the mass input of the nutrient.
  • the macroporous ion exchanger was also found to keep up a useful retention level.
  • the weakly acidic ion exchangers tested in Example 1 were also subjected to regeneration with strongly saline regenerants.
  • Dowex MAC-3 was regenerated with a solution of 10 mol/kg NaNO 3
  • Amberlite IRC86 was regenerated with a solution of 5 mol/kg NaNO 3 .
  • a substantial swelling of the ion exchanger was observed during the step of ammonium adsorption, which will affect the long-term persistence of its ammonium separation efficiency.
  • the macroporous Dowex MAC-3 it is projected from findings and observations at hand that a useful retention level will still be kept up after 10 runs of successive adsorption and regeneration steps.

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